Associate - Corporate - Privacy & Cyber

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Our highly ranked, interdisciplinary privacy and cyber practice delivers full-spectrum legal support around the globe, to solve today’s complex and dynamic compliance, regulatory, litigation, and transactional challenges. Our innovative strategies and standard of excellence promote the best outcomes and long-term success for our clients.

Counseling & Compliance Strategies
Regulators expect organizations to identify and manage privacy and cyber risk as they design, build, and operate innovative products and services. We work with global clients to implement privacy programs and create compliant processes, products, and services. We excel at prioritizing activities and outcomes to enable our clients to convincingly demonstrate how they have met their legal obligations, whether under the patchwork of US federal and state privacy and security laws, the European and UK General Data Protection Regulations, or the multitude of increasingly similar regimes around the globe. Our pragmatic, risk-based advice takes into account the requirements of these global privacy regimes to develop a streamlined operational model that businesses can implement.

Regulatory & Litigation Defense
We defend companies facing high-profile, complex, and often enterprise-threatening privacy and cyber regulatory enforcement matters and lawsuits in jurisdictions around the world. We have a proven track record of securing voluntary closures of regulatory inquiries and winning cases, and when we cannot, we work to achieve the best possible outcome for clients by leveraging our deep knowledge of the law, the facts, and the forum.

Cyber Incident Response
In the immediate aftermath of ransomware, theft, data leakage, and other major cyber incidents, we deliver just-in-time, experience-based legal advice and crisis response services to mitigate liability and competitive, reputational, or security harms. We offer full-spectrum services, assisting with internal and external investigations, disclosure and interaction with law enforcement, breach notification issues, and cyber insurance policies and claims.

Data-Driven Transactions
Our global team offers pragmatic, commercial advice, enabling clients to derive value from their data while ensuring compliance with the law. Our lawyers bring a unique cross-section of knowledge and experience spanning data, technology, and commercial issues to advise clients on the deployment of new and innovative technologies, new vendor arrangements, data licensing, and use of alternative and big data. Our privacy and cyber partners actively partner with our pre-eminent capital markets, private equity, M&A, and public company representation practices to deliver critical strategic insights at key moments before, during, and after a major corporate transaction.

We are seeking a highly qualified associate with a minimum of five years of privacy experience to join our 5th+ year associate class. Our global team represents leading clients across industries and of all sizes to help them through complex data privacy and security issues in high-profile and cutting-edge compliance and transactional matters. Applicants should have a mix of experience with commercial contracts, regulatory compliance and corporate transactional work in relation to data privacy and security issues. The ideal candidate will have counselled clients on compliance with privacy laws, negotiated the privacy and security components of commercial services agreements, and handled all privacy and security components of corporate transactions (including M&A deals, IPOs, etc.). The candidate must have excellent drafting and negotiation skills, as well as superior verbal and interpersonal skills, and not only be able to manage multiple projects and deadlines simultaneously, but also proactively lead on driving matters forward with minimal supervision. An aptitude for technology and an understanding of how online technologies work is strongly preferred. CIPP certification would also be a plus.

LateralRecruiting.Corporate@lw.com
Jordan.Wampler@lw.com

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Associate Base Salary

Discretionary bonuses may be available depending on application circumstances and position.

 

Class of	US Payroll
2026	$225,000
2025	$225,000
2024	$235,000
2023	$260,000
2022	$310,000
2021	$365,000
2020	$390,000
2019	$420,000
2018	$435,000